[talk-ph] Fwd: Fwd: Another user possibly illegal copying from GMaps

[Andy Townsend]

On 02/07/2021 09:02, Erwin Olario wrote:
> CC'ing the list of their latest response: https://imgur.com/ml0IR2e 
> <https://imgur.com/ml0IR2e>
>
>     We hire third-parties who are from the area being mapped to tag
>     the location of establishments, landmarks, and other government
>     offices. They will send to us the coordinates and the names of the
>     places, and will be encoded accordingly by a third-party.
>
>     The chances of having the same establishments, landmarks, and
>     government offices on the same location as Google is for the basic
>     reason that we are mapping the same areas on planet Earth. Unless,
>     Google mapped an alternate universe that would result in different
>     mapping of the same locality.
>
> FWIW, I previously invited them to engage with the LoCo through an 
> online meeting, but instead got this response.

Separately to the "copying from Google" issue:

As a group of organised editors they should be following 
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines

If they're not doing that, we (the DWG) may be able to take action - 
provided that we can identify the accounts involved.

Best Regards,

Andy (from the DWG)


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